Penza, 18 October 2012. PenzaNews. Russian Communist Party will be represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region of the fifth convocation by two deputies — the secretary of the Communist Party Georgy Kamnev and Andrei Zuev, who ran for membership during the previous elections from a single-seat constituency No.15.

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“The deputies of the State Duma from the Communist Party Vladimir Afonin and Yuri Simagin were leading in the regional party list, but gave up their seats in favor of other candidates, following them,” George Kamnev clarified in an interview to news agency “PenzaNews,” adding that his name was the third one on the list.

According to the first secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party, the second deputy's mandate was decided to be give to the representative of the regional group, on the territory of which the party has shown the best result during the previous election.

“Our party took 18% of the votes in Gorodischensky, Lopatinsky, Shemysheysky areas. This area is assigned to the regional group No.15, a member of which was Andrew Zuev,” Georgy Kamnev commented.

He stressed that over the past few years, the residents of these municipalities showed minimal support to the Communist Party, but they seemed “more understanding” during the last elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region.